U.S. should retain control over Internet

By overseeing the corporation that controls the Internet’s domain name system, the U.S. government ensured that no other country had the power to determine which ideas deserved Web addresses, says Brendan Greeley in Bloomberg Businessweek. President Barack Obama’s decision to allow global participation in Internet governance jeopardizes a free and open Internet as countries that restrict free speech attempt to shape how information flows online, he says.

Jay Jochnowitz

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This was always the plan that was sold to the global stakeholders. The contract expires in 2015. The risk was that it would be moved to say the UN as some have been calling for. This is a way of keeping it out of governmental control. The US really does have less than 5% of the world’s population, and the world is getting connected, and given the state of the world and the rather obvious problems the US is having with the relationship of the US national government, and its intelligence services, and corporations, including the NSA and its partners such as the Five Eyes, telecoms and tech firms, and its stated disregard of the restraints of international law and treaties such as in the human rights treaties which have as it center basic rights of people including privacy and having family secrets and private communications one can see why the rest of the 95% are demanding that the Internet be separate from governments and any single nationality including the US government. Remember it was the US that polled in global polls all around the world as being the greatest risk to world peace. I am sure we all know why, especially given the recent revelations.